‘You want me to help you eat your children?’ Ian said.
Jellenhut’s eye-stalks twitched. ‘How else would we remember them?’

Venus is dying. When the Doctor, Barbara and Ian arrive they find an ancient and utterly alien civilization on the verge of oblivion. War is brewing between those who are determined to accept death, and those desperate for salvation whatever the cost.

Then a spacefaring race arrives, offering to rescue the Venusians by moving them all to Earth - three billion years before mankind is due to evolve. Are the newcomers’ motives as pure as they appear? And will the Doctor allow them to save his oldest friends by sacrificing the future of humanity?

I found this book very difficult to get into - the Venusian culture is well thought out and the story is interesting, but I found the whole production brought down a couple of pegs by pointless "random letter" names (eg Gwebdhallut, Mrodtikdhil & Sesifghall, to name but three) given to the -huge- cast of Venusian characters. If it hadn't been so difficult to keep track of who was who I'd probably have rated this book higher...

mooched by queen-ypolita

Got this off BookMooch; it's going to the TRB pile.

I found that I didn't really have the patience to give this book a chance, and like freelunch, I found that the Venusian names looked so random that I gave up on trying to follow who was who very early on. This could have been interesting, but I just plodded through as quickly as could.

I'll be listing this on BookMooch in the next few days to pass it on.

Sent to a BookMooch member in the US